What resources or documentation would you recommend for someone struggling to understand how to use APIs in PHP?

Understanding how to use APIs in PHP can be challenging for beginners. To help with this, I recommend referring to the official PHP documentation on cURL, as it is a commonly used library for making HTTP requests to APIs. Additionally, reading tutorials and guides on RESTful APIs and how to interact with them using PHP can also be beneficial. 

<?php

// Example code using cURL to make a GET request to an API endpoint
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://api.example.com/data');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

$data = json_decode($response, true);

// Process the API response data as needed
foreach ($data as $item) {
    echo $item['name'] . ": " . $item['value'] . "\n";
}

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